SummaryAfter a night out with friends, an exhausted married couple, Babak (Shahab Hosseini), Neda (Niousha Noor) and their baby take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as Babak and Neda soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers f... Read More
Directed By:Kourosh Ahari
Written By:Kourosh Ahari, Milad Jarmooz
The Night
Metascore
Generally Favorable
68
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
68
90% Positive
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Jan 29, 2021
88
Kourosh Ahari's The Night, about a couple confronting their personal demons in a haunted hotel, is a knockout debut feature—so assured that it stands on its own as a filmmaking achievement apart from its historical significance, which is considerable.
Oct 29, 2020
80
Featuring excellent performances by Shahab Hosseini (“A Separation,” “The Salesman”) and Niousha Jafarian (“Here and Now”) as a married couple with a baby daughter and a frayed relationship, this predominantly Farsi-language production sneaks up on viewers and delivers a knockout final act.
Jan 29, 2021
70
The expert cinematic stylization on display proves ample reason to forgive The Night for any narrative shortcomings.
Jan 28, 2021
67
It's a slow build to collapse, escaping the traditional trap of such supernatural suspense films in that both of them have secrets, and it's not the acts themselves but the deceits that have led them to this place.
Jan 28, 2021
67
As a journey inward into the roiling waves of memory and regret, Ahari fulfills his promise with an unapologetic air of penance and disgrace. That its success happens despite his exploitation of Neda as a character and woman doesn’t, however, negate that egregious misstep. And the latter being highly triggering unfortunately renders any blind recommendation of the former a reckless proposition.
Jan 25, 2021
63
It’s at the juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that Kourosh Ahari’s film is at its most provocative.
Jan 28, 2021
50
The repetition of the visions and the film’s deliberate pace gives the audience too much time to guess which betrayals haunt Babak and Neda, and this lack of emotional suspense hampers the horror.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
57% Positive
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Oct 14, 2023
10
This is one of those films full of nuances that, in general, does not satisfy the taste of those who are more hasty or those who understand cinema only as banal **** nuances of this film make us think, raising our level of abstraction in an effort to understand ourselves, our fears, anxieties, afflictions and secrets, which at certain moments torment us so **** construction of the film shows this drama. Trapped in a parallel world, they would only leave when they faced their own demons. This is what suggests what appears to be a Jinn (a figure from Islamic mythology) who questions them at the hotel entrance.Furthermore, the consequences of ignoring what ails us can lead us into a spiral of self-deception that, in the end, will keep us trapped in this parallel world, that is, ourselves. Forever.
Production Company:
- Mammoth Pictures
- Indie Entertainment
- Orama Filmworks
- 7Skies Entertainment
- Leveller Media
- SuperNova8 Films
Release Date:Jan 29, 2021
Duration:1 h 45 m
Tagline:The Night it never end.
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Awards
Molins Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Grimmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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